Description

NU 22 SW NEWTON-BY-THE-SEA FALLODON

3/172 Fallodon Hall

GV II

Country house. Early C18 for Thomas Wood; service wing extended to rear in later C18; early C19 rear wing by John Dobson; remodelling and removal of main block 2nd floor c.1920 by Reavell and Cahill of Alnwick, following a severe fire. Main part brick in English Garden Wall bond 1 & 3, with sandstone ashlar dressings; rear-wing squared stone; return and rear elevation of service wing squared rubble. Graduated Lakeland slate roofs, except for Welsh slates on rear parts of service wing. Plan: 7 x 3 bay main block with single-storey entrance lobby extension on north; central rear wing with double-span service wing on north.

West front. Main block 2 storeys, 3 + 1 + 3 bays, symmetrical. Rusticated quoins, chamfered plinth and 1st floor band. Slightly-projecting centre has glazed double doors, in round arch with imposts and keystone, in surround with attached columns, metope frieze and cornice. 12-pane sash windows in stone surrounds with stepped segmental heads, triple keystones and projecting moulded sills. Moulded string below parapet with moulded coping. Hipped roof; panelled stepped-and-banded stacks at left end and on ridge. Set forward to left is single-storey entrance lobby of c. 1920 with 12-pane sash in keyed architrave. Set back to far left is 2-storey 4-bay service wing; rusticated quoins; half-glazed door in stone surround with C19 corbelled-out canted bay to left and paired 12-pane sashes to right; 4-pane casements in early C18 recessed and chamfered surrounds above. Roof hipped to left; 2 stepped-and- corniced old brick lateral stacks on left return.

North (entrance) front: Main block shows two 12-pane 1st-floor sashes in surrounds, as on west front, and rainwater head dated 1796 with initials C.G. (Sir Charles Grey) above flat-roofed single-storey extension. This has 3 12-pane sashes in keyed architraves; to right a projection with flush-panelled door in eared architrave within pedimented porch with banded piers and metope frieze.

South front of main block shows central 3-window bow with glazed double doors and radial overlight; fenestration as on south front, except that windows in bow are square-headed.

Rear (east) elevation: Basement to centre and right. Set back to left are 2 bays similar to front, and another 1796 rainwater head. Central 3-bay projecting wing with 12-pane sashes; hipped roof with early C20 flat-topped dormers. Right 3-bay rear part of service wing.

Interior c.1920, except for service wing; early C18 front part has 2-panel doors, some on L hinges, and old close-spaced transverse ceiling beams.

Former kitchen in rear parts has three chamfered segmental-arched fireplaces, partly blocked.

Historical Note. Since the mid C18 the seat of a branch of the Grey family, several of whom were prominent nationally. Earl Grey (1767-1828) was famous for the Reform Bill; Sir Edward Grey (1862-1933), 'Grey of Fallodon' was Foreign Secretary.

Listing NGR: NU2059423600

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